And it goes like this: ” One is nice, two makes a pair and three makes a collection! And then some…. I think we have collections that have collections!. Some people come in and marvel at the sheer number of things we’ve managed to have, hold, and display in one apartment! Most others always ask, “How do you dust all this stuff”? I never answer them.
I have a category in this blog called Peter Coddles and it is supposed to be about antiques, collectibles, nostalgia and to feature some of the many collections Peter and I have. I’ve been really derelict about posting in this area and not sure why. I LOVE my collections and I LOVE the stuff Peter collects, or well most of it anyway but that’s another story. Peter Coddles is also the name of our antique business.
Anyway, Murray came over the house the other day to photograph Peter’s collection of Peter Coddles Trip to New York vintage games. This is a collection I’m particularly fond of because when I met Peter 20 years ago, he had ONE game and over the years I bought him many various versions as presents. We believe he has the complete collection because for years now, we’ve not seen or found one that he doesn’t already own. It’s really hard to display everything and especially vintage games. We do have a few in a frame but most of the others are in drawers and boxes so by having Murray photograph them all, Peter is going to make a book. Great idea!
The game itself is an early 19th century parlor game. It’s kind of the prequel to Mad Libs. There are a lot of cards with random words on them and as the storyteller reads aloud from a booklet, whenever there is a blank in the sentence, one of the other players draws a card and reads the word to complete the sentence. Peter Coddles is a farmer, country boy, a hick and he has decided to take a trip to the big City! He runs into all sorts of things and predicaments. Of course you know the story can never makes any sense and induces gales of giggles all around. Being a boomer from the last century, it just occurred to me that this game might be hysterical if everyone was stoned. Oh well, that was certainly not the idea behind the original innocence of this game, but it is something to consider.
Peter Coddle’s Trip to New York
St. Nicholas Series-Peter Coddles
Peter Coddles Trip to New York
Peter Coddles Trip to New York
Peter Coddles – This ONE was the first in the collection
Peter Codles Trip to New York-later edition
Peter Coddles & His Trip to New York
All photos courtesy of Murray Head
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